Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will compose and conduct two pieces for Stuttgart's festival of popular music, has agreed to compose and arrange the music for Roland Petit's fall variety show and to co-star with Chevalier in a 13-week stand at the Théátre Alhambra. But he still casts a wistful look back at the classical career he planned for himself. "It's difficult to be a composer of serious music," he says. "You have to be convinced that you're terrific, or you're nothing. It's not the same as popular...
...simply have had a ready market for our products, and we've turned out the goods." Thus, Lone Star Steel Co. President Eugene B. Germany explained last week how his company had netted profits of $4.8 million in the first half of the year, more than it had earned all last year. In the same way scores of other companies found a ready market, turned out the goods-and reported record first-half or second-quarter profits last week. As a result, the Department of Commerce estimated that cash dividends paid in the first six months neared $5.4 billion...
Record sales pushed up giant General Electric Co. to a net of $113 million (v. $108 million last year) on sales just below $2 billion. Sylvania's sales high of $155 million produced earnings of $3,000,000 Wrapping up other records in the packaging boom, St. Regis Paper Co. earned $12.3 million v. $8.7 million in the first half of 1955. Continental Can Co. had a half-year record net of $14.5 million, up from $10.3 million last year. High retail sales were reflected in store profits. In its first 24 weeks of the year, Safeway Stores...
...upsurge in highway and heavy construction more than doubled H. K. Porter's first half 1955 net to $4,000,000 in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. rolled up profits of $26.2 million, 69% above a year ago. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. nearly doubled its net to $12.5 million...
MORE POWER PARTNERSHIP is in store for Northwest. Pacific Power & Light Co. has signed deal with Washington State's Cowlitz County Public Utility District to develop Upper Lewis River in $56.7 million project to produce 256,500 kw. by 1958. Pacific Power & Light will build and own main dam and powerhouse producing 189,000 kw., while PUD will spend $15 million on smaller, 67,500-kw. downstream powerhouse, get 26% of overall power produced...